Barry Mann

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Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York[1]) is an American songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock music.

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[edit] Career

With his partner and wife, Cynthia Weil, they operate a publishing company called Dyad Music. His first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)," which was a top twenty song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann had co-written the song with Gerry Goffin. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil met when they were both staff songwriters, and they were married in 1961. Also in 1961, they wrote and Mann sang a novelty song that made the Top 10 with "Who Put The Bomp", which parodied the nonsense words of the then recently popular doo-wop songs.[1]

Through the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Mann composed songs such as "Somewhere Out There" and movie scores for I Never Sang for My Father. Weil co-wrote "He's So Shy" with Tom Snow for The Pointer Sisters and worked on projects with Lionel Richie. In 1987, he was inducted with his wife into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[1]

[edit] Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c All Music Guide biography by Steve Kurutz

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